Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health

McDonough, Peggy; Sacker, Amanda; Wiggins, Richard D.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.03.021

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“…In sum, given the confounding of one temporal dimension of exposure to poverty with other temporal dimensions, it is not tenable to assume that the timing, duration, stability, and sequencing of exposure to economic deprivation operate independently (McDonough, Sacker, and Wiggins 2005). Wagmiller et al (2006) assess the temporal dimensions of poverty simultaneously by using period-based (i.e., calendar-year) trajectories of poverty.…”

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Age Trajectories of Poverty During Childhood and High School Graduation

Lee¹

2014

SocScience

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This article examines distinct trajectories of childhood exposure to poverty and provides estimates of their effect on high school graduation. The analysis incorporates three key insights from the life course and human capital formation literatures: (1) the temporal dimensions of exposure to poverty, that is, timing, duration, stability, and sequencing, are confounded with one another; (2) age-varying exposure to poverty not only affects, but also is affected by, other factors that vary with age; and (3) the effect of poverty trajectories is heterogeneous across racial and ethnic groups. Results from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show that any extended exposures to poverty substantially lower children's odds of graduating from high school. Persistent, early, and middle-to-late childhood exposures to poverty reduce the odds of high school graduation by 77 percent, 55 percent, and 58 percent, respectively, compared to no childhood exposure to poverty. The findings thus suggest that the impact of poverty trajectories is insensitive to observed age-varying confounders. These impacts are more pronounced for white children than for black and Hispanic children.

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Section: Age Trajectories Of Exposure To Povertymentioning

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Age Trajectories of Poverty During Childhood and High School Graduation

Lee¹

2014

SocScience

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“…[16][17][18][19] It may be possible to identify and initiate interventions to address these problems in the ED, as has been described for problems affecting younger adults, such as domestic violence and alcohol abuse. [20][21][22] Older adults would like to have their nonmedical problems addressed during their ED visit, 23 but the frequency of these problems among older ED patients has not been described.…”

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Prevalence of Nonmedical Problems Among Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department

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Pereira

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Academic Emergency Medicine

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Objectives: Health outcomes among older emergency department (ED) patients may be influenced by physical, economic, and psychological problems not routinely identified during the ED visit. The objective of this study was to characterize such problems among older adults presenting to the ED.Methods: This was a prevalence study with enrollment during 4-hour periods randomly selected between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on random days of the week over a period of 8 weeks at an academic ED in the southeast United States. Participants were noninstitutionalized, cognitively intact adults aged 65 years or older without life-threatening illness or injury. Consenting patients were asked about the frequency of 10 prespecified problems during the past year.Results: Patients (N = 138) were non-Hispanic white (69%) and female (57%) and almost all had primary providers (95%) and health insurance (98%). Forty percent reported their overall health as fair (21%) or poor (19%). Hazardous drinking habits were reported by 10% of patients. The prevalence of problems occurring either "sometimes" or "often" in the past year were pain (60%), difficulty walking (47%), lack of money (32%), isolation and loneliness (14%), lack of transportation (12%), difficulty scheduling a doctor's appointment (4%), difficulty getting prescriptions filled (4%), and lack of dental care (6%). Nine patients (7%) reported experiencing physical or psychological abuse at some point in the past year. Females, minorities, and individuals living in urban areas reported higher rates of most problems.Conclusions: Nonmedical problems are common among cognitively intact, independent living, noncritically ill older patients presenting to an ED in the southeast United States.ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2014;21:651-658

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“…However, our patients interact with their social and environmental context, and this infl uences their health. 5 This dynamic interaction is poorly documented within available health care data. Linkage of large data sets from social surveys, census, and health care may provide future opportunities for analysis of this dynamic interaction; however, smaller scale mixed-method longitudinal research is likely to be more productive in the short term.…”

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Complexity Science and its Relevance for Primary Health Care Research

Griffiths¹

2007

The Annals of Family Medicine

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Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health

Cited by 102 publications

References 39 publications

Age Trajectories of Poverty During Childhood and High School Graduation

Age Trajectories of Poverty During Childhood and High School Graduation

Prevalence of Nonmedical Problems Among Older Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department

Complexity Science and its Relevance for Primary Health Care Research

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